Tag: ambulance service
-
National Ambulance Service: Ballot continuing despite resolution of appointment and transfer issues
Unite slams six-year delay in implementing ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’ recommendations Management must ditch piecemeal approach and address all outstanding issues Trade union Unite, which represents members working for the National Ambulance Service (NAS), today (Wednesday) welcomed confirmation by NAS management yesterday that Year 3 graduate paramedics will be offered permanent appointments and that management…
-
National Ambulance Service: Unite members to ballot for industrial action
Dispute centres on non-implementation of ‘Roles and Responsibilities’ review Ambulance staff qualification and responsibilities must be recognised Trade union Unite, which represents members working for the National Ambulance Service, said today (Friday) that it is balloting members for industrial action on foot of the ongoing failure to implement the 2020 ‘Roles and Responsibilities Review’. The…
-
Response failures highlights need to end NI ambulance staffing crisis
Paramedics are almost into third year of industrial action over unacceptable working conditions Unite has released responses to a freedom of information (FoI) request on staffing shortfalls and the resulting failure to meet targets for ambulance response times. The figures obtained show that in May there were 135 frontline vacancies in the Northern Ireland Ambulance…
-
Proposed radical reform of NI Ambulance Service is welcome but must be underpinned by level playing field on pay for paramedics
Political failure has led to situation where paramedics in Northern Ireland are paid eight thousand pounds less a year than those in England and Wales No guarantees that proposals to recruit additional 300 paramedics to meet 50% surge in demand will go anywhere in absence of locally-accountable Ministers September 27th: Unite Lead officer for Health…
-
Wanton violence against NI Ambulance Service workers unacceptable
Union that represents hundreds of ambulance workers unequivocally condemns attacks on staff January 5th: Kevin McAdam, Unite Regional Officer with responsibility for the Ambulance workers was responding to recent attacks; the first on an ambulance crew in Lurgan in which an oxygen cylinder was launched at the vehicle while they were attempting to treat a…
-
Ambulance crews experiencing three-and-a-half hour delays in Waterford
Dungarvan-based ambulances responding to Midleton calls Unite warned of crisis a year ago January 5th: Unite said today that Dungarvan-based ambulance crews are being delayed for up to three-and-a-half hours during shift and three hours after shift, putting pressure on the service throughout the South-East. In addition, in order to comply with HIQA response times,…